Easy Halloween Recipes & Party Food To Please Your Crowd

Halloween Recipes, halloween party food and ideas, Snack and Treats for Desserts for your halloween party food and party planning this a great time to have a halloween parties. Keep your goblins and princesses in check, happy and charmed this halloween. So whether your having that big party, looking for some eyecatching snack to send to school or bring to your office party we have something for everybody even a crowd full of family members.

So bring out that cauldron and get ready to whip up a little halloween witches brew magic. Don't forget to check your supply of worms, spider webs and bat wings. Because these halloween recipes will help make this your best party ever!!!

Step 3: Pipe gel on top of frosting in a spiral pattern starting from the center of the cupcake.

Step 4: Drag the point of a knife across the set of circles starting at the center of the cupcake towards the edge. Repeat this process evenly around the diameter of the cupcake three more times.

Note: You can create a spider for the web by inserting thin black licorice whips into a miniature marshmallow. Place four pieces of licorice on each side of the marshmallow. Cut the licorice down so the legs are proportionate to the body.

Jack-O-Lantern Fruit Salad

Directions: Chop the assorted fruits and mix them in a large bowl. You will need about ½ cup per orange. To carve a pumpkin cup, slice off the top of the orange, using a knife to loosen the edges, scoop out the inside of the orange with a spoon. Toss the juice in with the fruit. Carve a small jack-o-lantern face in each orange. Fill each orange with fruit and replace its top. As a finishing touch, garnish each top with mint leaves for stems.

Magic Wands

Directions:Line baking sheet with wax paper. Melt semisweet chocolate in double boiler over hot, not boiling water. Remove from heat. Dip pretzel rods into chocolate, spooning chocolate to cover approximately 34/ each pretzel. Place on baking sheet and refrigerate until firm. Melt white chocolate in clean double boiler over hot, not boiling, water. Remove from heat. Dip coated pretzels quickly into white chocolate to cover approximately ¼ of pretzel. Place on baking sheet and top immediately with sprinkles. Refrigerate until firm. Tie ends with ribbons.

Directions: In a bowl, beat together butter, sugar, egg, almond extract and vanilla. Beat in flour, baking soda and salt. Cover and refrigerate 30 minutes. Work with one quarter of the dough at a time, keep the rest refrigerated. Roll one teaspoon of dough into a finger shape. Press almond on the end of each cookie for a fingernail. Squeeze in center to form knuckle shape. Using a paring knife, make slashes in several places to form knuckle. Place on a lightly greased cookie sheet. Bake at 325 degrees for 20-25 minutes, until pale golden. Let cool for three minutes. Lift up almond and squeeze red decorators gel onto nail bed. Press almond back in place so gel oozes out. You can also make slashes on fingers and fill them with blood.Remove from baking sheet and let cool on racks.

Directions: Butter cookie sheets generously. Wash and dry waxed apples thoroughly. Insert wooden skewer in stem end of each apple. Mix sugar, corn syrup, water and food coloring in 2-quart heavy saucepan. Heat to boiling over high heat; reduce heat. Boil gently, without stirring, to 290 degrees on a candy thermometer, or until small amounts dropped into very cold water separates into threads that are hard but not brittle. Stir in clove oil. Dip apples quickly into syrup. Stand on cookie sheet; cool. Note: You can add an extra creepy touch by adding a candy worm to each apple.

Directions: Butter 15x10 jelly roll pan. In large, wide pot, melt butter over medium heat. Add marshmallows; cook, stirring constantly, until melted. Stir in chips and peanut butter until melted and smooth. Make mixture light green with food coloring.Remove from heat. Coat inner sides of pot with non-stick cooking spray so cereal won't stick. Stir in cereal until combined. Press mixture into jelly roll pan to make 1-inch thick, 12x10 rectangle. Draw an aliens head on a piece of waxed paper. Make drawing approximately 31/2 long, and cut out. Place alien head on cereal mixture and trace around it with a sharp knife; repeat to cutout 12 aliens, discarding scraps. Starting at bottom point of face, insert a stick 1/3 of way through head. Transfer frosting to plastic food storage bag with corner snipped. Squeeze out frosting to make eyes and mouth. Eyes should be pointed at both ends, and go up at an angle. Mouth should be a short line.

Grave Cupcakes

Directions: Bake cupcakes according cake mix package instructions. In a medium bowl stir one tubof frosting with cookie crumbs. Once the cupcakes are cool, frost them with the cookie crumb frosting. Fill a pastry bag with a plain tip on the end with the second tub of frosting. Write R.I.P. on each graham cracker cookie. Once decorated, place a cookie on top of each cupcake so that it looks like a grave stone.

Wormy Cupcakes

Directions: Bake cupcakes according cake mix package instructions. Frost with chocolate frosting and sprinkle the cookie crumbs on top of each cupcake. Cut the gummi worms in half and stick to each cupcake with frosting so they appear to be coming out of the "dirt".